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Fortune (July 19)

2023/ 07/ 20 by jd in Global News

“Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%.” This doesn’t necessarily show later versions are inferior as they might perform better on other tasks. The study which uncovered this does prove the existence of “wild fluctuations—called drift—in the technology’s ability to perform certain tasks.” Drift may arise from the rather “unpredictable effects of changes in one part of the model on others.”

 

Wall Street Journal (April 3)

2023/ 04/ 03 by jd in Global News

“For decades, American cities have had a parking problem: too much of it. Countless residential parking spots go unused, and many downtown garages sit half empty. Ride-sharing and the rise of remote work during the pandemic have aggravated the trend.” In response, “cities are shrinking the number of spaces, freeing up the land for other uses, with far-reaching consequences.”

 

Washington Post (February 18)

2022/ 02/ 20 by jd in Global News

“The U.S. economy has an inflation problem the likes of which haven’t been seen in 40 years, and the main policymakers in charge of keeping it in check — at the Federal Reserve — have been far too slow to even admit there is a problem, let alone to start addressing it. It is time for the Fed to get aggressive.”

 

WARC (March 4)

2021/ 03/ 06 by jd in Global News

“Ultimately, the cookie was one of the aspects of the internet (and, by extension, digital advertising) that gave it a bad name. But at least they were everyone’s problem/opportunity – what comes next could lead to a vast concentration of power.” One proposal, federated learning of cohorts (FLoC), is facing growing skepticism.

 

CNN (December 23)

2019/ 12/ 24 by jd in Global News

“The Trump administration is hiding something…. The problem, of course, is that we may not know what the Trump administration is covering up until it is too late—until this administration is long gone, or until it is too late to fix the damage.”

 

Los Angeles Times (June 18)

2019/ 06/ 19 by jd in Global News

The President consistently “runs through the talking points about the economy or judges as quickly as possible so he can get to the really important topic: Donald Trump. The problem for Trump is that if the central question of the election is him he will lose because he is not popular.”

 

The Guardian (June 12)

2019/ 06/ 14 by jd in Global News

“The problem with earthquakes is that they undermine the very things you do to prevent them. And with Tokyo now seeing millions of tourists a year, and expecting millions more for the Rugby World Cup this year and the Olympics in 2020, the city is ripe for panic in the event of a disaster.”

 

The Week (May 23)

2017/ 05/ 25 by jd in Global News

“How much of a problem is it that the president of the United States, the most powerful person on Earth, is a blithering idiot?” Depends what kind of blithering idiot. “Raw intellect doesn’t translate to presidential success, and its absence could, in the right circumstance, be compensated for.” But “President Trump’s particular brand of stupidity” is very dangerous. “You can be dumb but modest, or dumb but thoughtful, or dumb but careful. Trump is none of those things. He’s boastful, impulsive, and careless, all while continuing to blaze new trails of thickheadedness, while the rest of us are left to stand back and gawp in amazement.”

 

Institutional Investor (August 10)

2015/ 08/ 12 by jd in Global News

Greece’s ongoing problem “seems to have been kicked down the road yet again—as ever, the question is, For how long?…. Early elections could quickly bring the issue back into market focus.”

 

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